Tutorial 8: OSSIM + JasperServer + iReport Tutorial

Author: Dominique Karg

Wow, almost March and my first post this year, need to care a bit more about this. Lot of things are happening around OSSIM, AlienVault and myself these months.
First, we finished a big funding round early this year which finally will enable us to consolidate OSSIM as a leader in the SIEM space (at least that’s the…

Hello all,
we’re looking for somebody to assist us in the elaboration of
documentation around OSSIM, it’s components and Open Source Security
in general. We require strong knowledge both in English written skills
as well as experience on OSSIM. We are willing to pay on a per-work
basis up to 3000 or 4000 . a month, with an option to get…

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The story starts as following. A couple of years ago Dr. Anton Chuvakin (for those who might not know him a well renowned security professional and speaker) made a prediction for 2006: that a Credible Open-Source SIM would not arrive.
A year later he said this goal hasn’t been reached (as predicted). I remember being quite pissed off and upset…

A friend of mine is preparing a speech at a security conference this summer around OSSIM. He asked if I could get some feedback, case-studies or anything that could backup and enrichen his speech, this is what this post is for 😊.
So please, should you have anything (wether it’s good or bad, happy or sad) to…

I’m happy to announce the availability of the next beta, AV Installer beta6 http://data.alienvault.com/ossim-installer_1.2.beta6.iso [no longer available]. (md5: 21204ecf2949a1d9ac9838b3c694b72d.
Again, thanks a ton to everybody testing the betas and reporting bugs / improvements, with your help this is already the best release that’s been…

Just uploaded a new AlienVault OSSIM installer beta, Beta 5 http://data.alienvault.com/ossim-installer_1.2.beta5.iso [No longer available]. As always, thanks a ton to everybody helping out on testing. Besides Anton, Greg, Kristian and Stephan there are many others helping, both on forums or anonymously (found some old friend’s domain names in the apache log for update…

I just wanted to share a quick mail we’ve received tonight at AlienVault. I’m hiding the user’s identity until he grants me permission to disclose it, which I doubt he’ll do btw.
The mail did read as following:
Subject: Port scan from you guys to my server from 207.158.15.208. Cease and desist.
I installed your ossim product…

And another quick post. New beta is out, thanks a ton to everybody reporting bugs. This time there aren’t big change, but a ton of small glitches have been fixed. Grab it here http://data.alienvault.com/ossim-installer_1.2.beta3.iso [No longer available]. As the last time, updates will focus on a beta3 base although they should work…

Just a quick notice about beta2 being out. Tons of bugs have been this weeks, cheers to everybody helping. Updates for the upcoming week should apply to both but will be focused on beta2 "http://data.alienvault.com/ossim-installer_1.2.beta2.iso [No longer available].
Among the fixes, there are:
Forensics panel visual and functionality fixes.
New auto-update notification. When enabled…

I’m proud to announce the availability of the first public testing release of the upcoming installer. We’re in final stages of testing now, and tho there are still known issues it’s time to get community feedback on it. Many many thanks to anybody willing to help test this iso. Please keep in mind that…

Introduction
Today I would to share something interesting we’re working on: Risk/Availability/Vulnerability indicator Maps.
The purpose was to fit the most important information that can be gained from ossim all over it’s interface, into a simple to use, simple to manage and simple to analyze interface.
We already had an approach to both, to…

#tags zattoo,tv,scam
After having used their service for quite some time I received the announcement that they wanted to start charging users a samll fee. I’m talking about Zattoo. Quoting their site:
Zattoo is real TV on your PC - andd it’s absolutely free. It’s the football game as you chat,…